Comma after or before "parenthetic" and?

After showing me the house, Nana led us to the living room, and with Mongai's Take Me Somewhere Nice playing on in the background, we started on the Scotch we'd bought at the 7-Eleven. The dim light and the soft

Is the comma correctly positioned before the italics in the example above? Or I should place the comma after and?

Solution 1:

It may be preferable to eliminate the comma and instead insert a period. The first sentence seems like a separate event from the second sentence.

After showing me the house, Nana led us to the living room. With Mongai's "Take Me Somewhere Nice" playing in the background, we started on the Scotch we'd bought at the 7-Eleven.

Solution 2:

With any such sentence, read it with and without the parenthetical -- that should make matters clearer.

In the instant case, and is a part of the parenthetical, and rightly belongs inside the pair of commas.